Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other modern dancers appeared on the scene, Martha Graham seemed less of a freak. Mary Wigman visited the U. S. for three successive seasons, left pupils in her wake. Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman are Denishawn products who have gone far on their own. Helen Becker, who calls herself Tamiris, dances with rare drive and energy, stomps her heels as does no one else. Harald Kreutzberg was hailed as a modern at first, partly because he was one of the early Wigman pupils. Now, despite his amazing virtuosity, purists consider him too theatrical, too obvious with his miming...
...Benchly's short on How to Sleep and How to Wake Up, turned out to be funnier than we thought it was going to be, although the ending was rather wet. All in all, the "Uni" has a successful billing for the first half of the week, and we look forward to "The Tale of Two Cities," which follows this program...
Examination periods always leave a host of tragedies in their wake. Thus when one of them is discussed in detail; you may be sure that it is especially poignant...
...travels of Edward VIII have been worldwide. Always on returning to London he made strong speeches to British tycoons, rebuking them, in effect, for not resorting to U. S. high-pressure sales methods and clarioning time & again the phrase coined by George V when he was Prince of Wales: "Wake up, England...
...which he was to speak 17 times. To interviewers Japan's great Christian explained that his causes, labor organization and cooperatives, represent "practical Christianity." Exulted the Christian Century: "It is about as certain as anything can be that as soon as the business forces of the country wake up to what is happening with this growth of church interest in co-operatives they will loose a blast which will make their complaint against Roosevelt's mild economic experimentalism sound like a Schumann-Heink lullaby...